This caricatures exactly what is wrong with Eastenders, even to this day. There is lack of personalisation, every character in Eastenders has the same mannerisms and uses the exact same language (and no, I don't mean the language of the area, I mean person-specific dialect, every character's speech is more universal than unique.) Nobody has their own distinct traits. Eastenders are clones... I do not believe that 'The hump' is the only phrase 5 million east-end Londoners use to convey displeasure in another's comments. It's just like how every single dad in the show is 100% useless, I mean every dad, all of them - all dad's since 1985. An overused plot device in Eastenders that has been used at least twice a month since 1985 is "You will remember that it's Steve's birthday tomorrow, dad. Won't you?" which is answered by a non-concentrating father who will reply "Yeah. Yeah, course I do darling, of course I do. Here's five thousand pounds, go buy them something special..." I wish I lived in London's east because it seems that middle-aged males suffer regular bouts of 'away-with-the-fairies' where you can say something about a birthday or a funeral and they will hand you the entire contents of their wallet.
I'm not saying everything has to, it was merely an observation that someone outside the UK would have no frame of reference to the phrase 'the hump' - that's all.
@@brucelevine6517 English phrase to ‘have the hump’ is to be annoyed about something or just generally in a bad mood. They’re saying ump since it’s a London thing to not pronounce the h sound at the beginning of certain words.
